This year, National Poison Prevention Week is March 20th–26th. The Pet Poison Helpline receives thousands of calls annually ...

An EIA investigation links a massive copper-cobalt plant in the DRC to deadly air pollution, with residents reporting severe illness since operations began in 2023.

A little girl from Hull suffered seizures and needed a blood transfusion after she was inadvertently exposed to a rare form ...

Two people have died following an outbreak of meningitis in Kent. An 18-year-old pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Overdoing it on this popular supplement can lead to a host of serious health issues, which one man learned the hard way. Per a study published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, the unidentified ...

Arizona student dies after a vodka hazing ritual at a fraternity party, sparking arrests, investigation and renewed scrutiny of campus hazing culture.

Two more state-employed prison nurses are facing disciplinary charges alleging they injured a patient who subsequently died.

Wegovy is a Food and Drug Administration-approved weight loss medication for people with obesity or those who are overweight with weight-related health conditions. In recent years, interest in ...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's Darem has a very strange running joke caused by his Khionian biology. Jonathan Frakes explains its real-life origin.

In this Q&A, I share the most shocking moment of my medical career — a sudden, life-threatening GI bleed that turned an ICU ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...